fast fiveFast Five (also known as Fast and Furious 5 outside North America) is primed to equal if not better the $71 million opening weekend of its 2009 predecessor and, if a sixth film were not already in the works, that kind of coin would guarantee it.Pointing out that a movie about driving cars fast is dumb is a futile thing to do, but so is seeing it, and enough people will do that, no matter how noisy or nonsensical the film is. And, of course, Fast Five will make its hefty budget back in spades, whether I give a shit or not.After two sequences that top each other for giddy, large-scale ridiculousness—one a prison-bus breakout, the other an audacious attempt to boost cars from a moving train—Fast Fivetakes up permanent residence in Rio, where former adversaries turned outlaw buddies Vin Diesel and Paul Walker ar
fast five Fast Five (also known as Fast and Furious 5 outside North America) is primed to equal if not better the $71 million opening weekend of its 2009 predecessor and, if a sixth film were not already in the works, that kind of coin would guarantee it.Pointing out that a movie about driving cars fast is dumb is a futile thing to do, but so is seeing it, and enough people will do that, no matter how noisy or nonsensical the film is. And, of course, Fast Five will make its hefty budget back in spades, whether I give a shit or not.After two sequences that top each other for giddy, large-scale ridiculousness—one a prison-bus breakout, the other an audacious attempt to boost cars from a moving train—Fast Fivetakes up permanent residence in Rio, where former adversaries turned outlaw buddies Vin Diesel and Paul Walker ar
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